st: RE: Formatting and variable problem

Fred Wolfe writes:
>
> I have a program which does various calculation and then ends
> with the following line:
>
> di as text "{ralign `startcol' : `outname'}" " {c |}" as result
> "{ralign 9: `N' `mean' `sd' `se' `median' `min' `max' `lci' `uci'}"
>
> If any of the macros are empty (`N' `mean' `sd' `se' `median' `min' `max'
> `lci' `uci'), as would often be expected, then no result for the missing
> macro is displayed. However, each missing macro uses exactly 1 character
> space. Therefore the output is not uniform as to spacing, and it is hard to
> line up titles above the output.
Fred... it's not the macro that is taking up one character, it is the space
between macros that you put in to separate the elements of your output line.
Those spaces print just like any other character, regardless of whether your
macros are empty or not.
Tom

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